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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 25–28.
Published: 01 January 2013
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Guy Standing’s persuasive, if breezy, survey of the organi-
zation of time and work ends with a list of remedies for what he calls the “precar-
ity trap.” Three broad solutions are offered: a Slow Time movement, analogous
to the Slow Food movement; the full commodification of labor / full...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 427–447.
Published: 01 September 2015
... are the circumstances that produce the impasse in which Palestinians find themselves? They are rooted in both the history of Palestinian displacement and the present precarity of refugees. Approximately 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homeland and dispossessed of their homes and property in 1948...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 375–384.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and infrastructure, of publicness and transnational networks. Adopting the term black markets for these sites calls attention to the racialization of these spaces, and their emergence as sites of possibility, precarity, and care in the face of protracted crises. [email protected] Copyright 2022...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 305–327.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., practices, and memories. Contexts of economic and political precarity both produce the motivation for sponsoring bookmobiles and sharpen the contours of relationships between institutions, infrastructure, people, and texts. A critique of bookmobiles opens up two avenues of theoretical implications: first...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 45–75.
Published: 01 January 2020
.... On the contrary, their precarity and poverty are not natural. They are productive at home, but the profits of their labor are skimmed off by a state-supported system of extraction that ratchets most Sahelian farmers to subsistence or below. These young men do not attribute their plight to the climate...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 193–217.
Published: 01 May 2021
... commute: “I'm just passing, and you're in the jungle. You bump into the lion and you run. You escape yourself. Then you're going home” (Interview with Marcus, Johannesburg, July 2014). Forms of precarity compound one another: undocumented migrants have few employment options and they risk losing their pay...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 5–23.
Published: 01 January 2013
..., wanting to
reform the minority, has extended “behavioral conditionality” in social policy,
influenced by the “libertarian paternalism” that utilitarians have embraced. This
is forcing the new social category of “claimants” to do more futile time-using,
unremunerated work.
The Precarity Trap...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 197–198.
Published: 01 May 2018
... us think about infrastructure in the context of precarity, where schedules and interactions are less certain and delays and the inability to move (or the necessity of moving immediately) are more present. Lingel uses “bookmobile initiatives launched in circumstances of political and spatial...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 195–217.
Published: 01 May 2022
... violence. I ask, in other words, that we honor the movement's embrace of a precarity without end(s). As I differentiate below, this precarity is not to be confused with the libertarian production of herd immunity, the agonistic trial by microbe of Donald Trump's rallies in the summer of 2020. It is instead...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 373–391.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of precarity and possibility, and as an apparatus of state interests. 1 I am interested in the discourses that construct subjects within the university, specifically, how the policies and diversity initiatives within the university reproduce the precarity of living undocumented. How are undocumented...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 3–18.
Published: 01 January 2018
... rendered superfluous. But who exactly has done all this work, we ask, and when did they do it? Captivity helps to press scholars to write in a more active tense, to engage a level of historical and theoretical specificity that corrects for the otherwise awkward realization that terms such as precarity...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 47–70.
Published: 01 January 2022
... “immiseration thesis”—with capital's greater productivity comes greater suffering for the underemployed—crystallizes a contemporary capitalism defined by the eruptive expansion in the financial sector and the increasing social precarity of those excluded from traditional labor markets. Moreover, his portrait...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2015
... precarity. Celebrity may not be driving these political changes, but as these essays demonstrate, celebrities and their publics occupy increasingly important positions on the information highway along which those political transformations travel. The essays that follow pay as much attention to that highway...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 147–152.
Published: 01 May 2022
... other commentators have focused on the willful neglect of the afflicted by political administrations at the onset of these crises, Alexander builds a connection between subcultures that embraced “precarity without end(s)” (196). Among barebacking practitioners of unprotected sex, “bug chasing...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 333–357.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Experiences of Precarity through ‘Popular Economy’ in Argentina .” Bulletin of Latin American Research 39 , no. 1 : 69 – 82 . Simone AbdouMaliq . 2020 . “ To Extend: Temporariness in a World of Itineraries .” Urban Studies 57 , no. 6 : 1127 – 42 . Simone AbdouMaliq , and Rao...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 289–303.
Published: 01 September 2021
... interact,” contend Liebman, Rhiney, and Wallace ( 2020 : 331). Jolaosho ( 2021 ) observes, “breath has the potential to be a connective force drawing together multiple points of exposure and vulnerability specific to Black experiences, and also marginalization and bodily precarity among those...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 143–171.
Published: 01 January 2018
... of belonging through the enactment of security rituals. Further, it offers a form of psychological security in an era characterized by economic insecurity and precarity. However, as we will see shortly, who belongs and who does not belong is demarcated along lines of race. The campaign also commemorates 9...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 385–392.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Citizenship, Anti-racism, and Labour Precarity through Migration Politics in Italy .” In Where Are the Unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe , edited by Lazar Sian , 87 – 106 . London : Zed Books . Peano Irene . 2019 . “ Supply chain affettive...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 515–538.
Published: 01 September 2017
... ( Agier 2002 ; Bauman 2002) . But even in contexts of protracted liminality, the lives of refugees are not totalistically reducible to the times and spaces of the present tense ( Ramadan 2013) . Conditions of precarity are also arenas of subject making, in which the hardships of everyday life inspire new...
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Public Culture (2021) 33 (1 (93)): 65–85.
Published: 01 January 2021
... subordinations: oriented less to residual colonial damage (as terms like legacies and vestiges conjure) than to deepening inequalities on which (il)liberal politics increasingly thrive—asymmetries of exposure and precarity here and now. One thought is that an overly focused rendition of what are construed...
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